Some Old and Then Some New Tricks: CK & DF Review Gypsy (for Parterre Box)
Audra McDonald is Broadway’s latest Rose in George C. Wolfe’s re-conceived GYPSY.
Audra McDonald is Broadway’s latest Rose in George C. Wolfe’s re-conceived GYPSY.
A terminally hip production and model-pretty cast can’t disguise the work of an interpretively clueless director.
Jez Butterworth’s play wants to both shine a harsh light on nostalgia, and to bask in it.
It’s a joy to see this great playwright equally at home as a screenwriter and director.
Lucy Kirkwood’s riveting and unsettling play is both fresh and a welcome return to old-school playmaking.
This is the show that this season captured theater cognoscenti like no other.
Each successive version pushed the envelope further… and was less effective.
Eleanor Burgess’s insightful, moving play explores how the gospel should be spread.
Director Lila Neeugebauer’s production refashions Chekhov’s play as a Steve Carell movie.
This tale of the trials and tribulations of making great music is brilliantly in tune.